Jerusalem Peacemakers
Introduction

Our aim is to contribute to peace with justice and a decent life for all people in the Holy Land.

Jerusalem Peacemakers was founded in 2004 with two interlocking circles of peacemakers: one in Israel-Palestine, and the other centred in Glastonbury, SW England. During 2006 its nexus of operations shifts to Israel, with its European and American friends supporting from their home countries.

We work at the 'sub-NGO' level: people supporting people, with a humanitarian and interfaith emphasis. No offices, no big organisational issues: we're a solid network of dedicated people, working together, rather than a foundation or institution.

The peacemakers in the Holy Land work together to help loosen up rigid beliefs, bridge the gulf between peoples, and to help people recognise they're all in this together and that polarisation and violence do not work.

Sheikh Bukhari, one of the peacemakers, keeps saying: If peace and reconciliation can be achieved in the Holy Land, it can be achieved anywhere. He's right.

You're welcome to participate. You can:
• donate to the peacemakers
• form a support community, or
• get involved in other ways.

Take an initiative! Just do it. It really helps progress the cause of peace and justice in the Middle East. "If you think small things don't make a difference, try spending a night in a room with a mosquito!" - HH the Dalai Lama.

Jerusalem Peacemakers is a non-profit organisation. We raise and send moral, human and financial support for the peacemakers in the Holy Land, and help them communicate with the wider world - you.

Jerusalem Peacemakers started in April 2004, born out of a decade of work by the Creative Health Network, which ran international healing summits and supported humanitarians in the 1990s.

Jerusalem Peacemakers connects you
with independent peacemakers in the Holy Land.

Specific aims:

• to provide information for the public worldwide

• to back up peacemakers in their travels and outreach

• to channel human, practical and financial support

• to help dialogue, visiting and contact

Main contacts:
In Glastonbury:
Webmaster:
Coordinator:
USA ambassador:
In Jerusalem:

Jerusalem Peacemakers
– who we are

Over twelve years a constellation of peacemakers and social healers has grown up as a result of conferences and events run by the Creative Health Network, led by Suzanne Keehn in California and Pam Perry in Britain.

On the buildup of the second intifada in the Holy Land, around 2000, a network of independent peacemakers formed in the Holy Land. Cooperation and mutual visits started up between these two groups.

Early in 2002 CHN ran a gathering in Glastonbury, UK, for us to review our situation. There was a feeling we had come to an end of the road. World events had taken a turn for the worse. We had reached an impasse.

We thought of making a website. When Sheikh Bukhari and Eliyahu McLean visited Glastonbury in January 2004, something 'clicked'. Jerusalem Peacemakers was born.

It started as a joint project of three people in England and three in the Holy Land, and it has grown from there.

Jerusalem Peacemakers enables the coming-together of people to support each other in difficult times.

Ibrahim Abu el-Hawa of the Mount of Olives, East Jerusalem, is a father-figure and inspiration to many people and social projects in and around Jerusalem. He runs an open house for peace-oriented visitors to Jerusalem.

Sheikh Bukhari is one of a long line of Sufi leaders going back centuries. He promotes interfaith dialogue with religious leaders and ordinary people of all persuasions. He lives with his family in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Eliyahu McLean is a Jewish peacemaker living in West Jerusalem. He works and prays with people of all beliefs and he speaks out internationally for reconciliation in the Holy Land.

Pam Perry is a former conference organiser and counsellor. Now physically disabled, she does her peace work from her home in Glastonbury, England. It is she who brought everyone together.

Palden Jenkins is a humanitarian webmaster, historian, adviser and wordsmith living in Glastonbury. He runs this site and visits the Middle East on peacemaking missions - 'healing the healers and teaching the teachers'.

Tom Clark is a theatre producer and charitable funding consultant living near Glastonbury. He keeps us on track and advises on fundraising and support allocation, raising funds through various trusts and organisations in UK.

More friends of Jerusalem Peacemakers...

Suzanne Keehn, CHN co-founder, USA	Ibtisam Mahamid, Women's Interfaith Encounter	Elana Rozenman, Women's Interfaith Encounter	Michael Lightweaver, USA, Int'l Inst for Global Leadership	Bahli Mans-Morris, Glastonbury, CHN board member	Hagit Ra'anan, Israel, peace worker	Father Maximilian Mizzi, Assisi, Italy	Marina Tyasto, Novosibirsk, Siberia

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